For four days, attendees will be networking with industry experts, attending thought-provoking and empowering education sessions, and exploring a show floor with the latest merchandise for convenience and fuel retailing. Learn more about why the NACS Show is the epicenter of “what’s next” for the c-store industry.

This year’s event has been recast as a virtual, on-demand experience with nearly a dozen sessions analyzing industry performance, trends and economic forces in a new era of “anytime, anyplace convenience.” Added sessions will focus on how coronavirus and last-mile delivery are reshaping retail.

The NACS Leadership for Success program provides rising leaders in the industry an invaluable opportunity to discover personal strengths that they can use to grow their career while creating a more profitable performance-oriented environment within their company.

We offer best-in-class education for convenience industry leaders who are driven to gain the subject matter expertise and leadership skills needed to successfully respond to the challenges of a competitive industry.

This year’s event has been recast as a virtual, on-demand experience with nearly a dozen sessions analyzing industry performance, trends and economic forces in a new era of “anytime, anyplace convenience.” Added sessions will focus on how coronavirus and last-mile delivery are reshaping retail.

We offer best-in-class education for convenience industry leaders who are driven to gain the subject matter expertise and leadership skills needed to successfully respond to the challenges of a competitive industry.

Package Stores Challenge Cumberland Farms Alcohol Proposal

The 2020 ballot measure would eliminate the cap on locations where retailers can sell beer and wine in Massachusetts.

November 27, 2019

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.—This summer, Cumberland Farms proposed a ballot that would let retailers sell beer and wine at any of its stores, with no cap on the number of locations. This week, the Massachusetts Package Stores Association has challenged the proposal’s constitutionality, the Boston Business Journal reports. The ballot measure is scheduled to be put to a vote in the November 2020 election.

As well as jettisoning the state cap on locations, the measure would also create a new license for food retailers to offer beer and wine for off-premise consumption. The ballot proposal also contains a requirement for stores to check IDs for all purchasers of alcoholic beverages via barcode scanners.

The lawsuit alleges that the ballot proposal has too many unrelated issues with the only commonality being alcohol. The state’s constitution mandates that a ballot’s issues must be interconnected. However, Cumberland Farms countered that state Attorney General Maura Healey viewed the proposal’s components as constitutional.

Currently, convenience retailers like Cumberland Farms can only register seven alcohol licenses in Massachusetts, with that number rising to nine next year. The ballot proposal would gradually increase the cap yearly through 2023 before eliminating it entirely in 2024.